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Recent Examples of firing squadWith the challenges of finding lethal injection drugs, some states are considering gas chambers and firing squads.—Kelly Puente, The Tennessean, 2 July 2025 Brad Keith Sigmon on Friday for the beating deaths of his ex-girlfriend's parents, marking the first firing squad execution in the state in modern history and the first in the U.S. since 2010.—Alexis Simmerman, Austin American Statesman, 2 July 2025 Stanko was considering dying by South Carolina’s new firing squad, as two inmates before him were executed.—Jeffrey Collins, Los Angeles Times, 14 June 2025 Mikal Mahdi was executed on April 11, becoming the second man in South Carolina to be executed by a three-person firing squad this year after admitting to killing an off-duty police officer in 2004.—Viola Flowers, NBC news, 9 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for firing squad
The north was expected to be America’s rear guard, a place where values like democracy and women’s rights might have taken hold.
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Azam Ahmed,
New York Times,
24 Dec. 2024
And assassins from a coalition of all the local indigenous tribes — out for blood over the murder of Jimmy the Creek, one of their own, last episode — slit the throats of Ming’s rear guard.
Mop-up and patrol will continue where appropriate to secure and strengthen containment.
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CA WILDFIRE BOT,
Sacbee.com,
12 Sep. 2025
Ford dropped it from the Explorer’s retail lineup, but continues to offer it in police vehicles, which benefit from its ability to power AC and other accessories without running the engine when parked, as patrol vehicles often spend lots of time doing.
Last month, a photograph captured by the European Space Agency's Sentinel-2 satellites showed what is now a fully functional military outpost.
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Micah McCartney,
MSNBC Newsweek,
12 Sep. 2025
Likewise, the parks have long offered premium dining packages with special seating for nighttime entertainment but one Disney outpost recently took that model one step further.
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